ROWLAND HASSALL SCHOOL

Principal’s Message

TERM 2 ISSUE ONE 2019

ROWLAND HASSALL MATTERS

Inside this issue:

Principal’s Mes- 1

Class Reports 2-5

Captain Report 8

Diary Dates: Week 9—Gold Coast Camp A letter will be sent home soon with more in-formation information Website: www.rowlandhass.schools.nsw.edu.au

Attendance Attendance registers are taken daily and recorded. Please contact the school if your child is away due to illness or for any other reason. Attendance registers are also regularly checked by our Home School Liaison Officer.

Dear Parents/carers, As Principal, I have the expectation that my staff are focused not only on the best academic outcomes for your child, but also on supporting their growth as independent, respectful and resilient young people.

In a child’s world the smallest of is-sues can be huge. With considerable effort and patience, the teachers and students have worked together to en-courage the development of selfregulation strategies in their class-room and the whole school, this is al-so supported with the use of our morning mindfulness program, it is slowly and surely working!

So as the students learn together we continue to encourage them to:

* Have a vision to take care of oneself and to Dream big

Have a vision to take care of oneself and to Dream big. The Book Week Event on the 21st August was a wonderful day of cele-bration of books and students partici-pating in comic book drawing activi-ties. Students and staff also delighted us with dressing up as their favourite book character. Please see our Face-book page to view the Photos. This week is School Administrative and Support (SAS) Staff Recognition Week, a time to acknowledge and thank the often unsung heroes in our public schools. Our SAS staff play an important role in the school commu-nity. They are often the first people you see when you enter a school and are essential to maintaining positive relationships with students, parents and the community. SAS staff work in school offices, in classrooms and li-braries and maintaining and caring for school grounds and buildings.

GregFuchs Principal Rowland Hassall School

Class 7 would like to welcome Mario into our class. Hi everyone! This is Mario. I’m having a great time in my new class. My teacher Miss Gilbert is pretty cool. I’m learning a whole heap of new things. In the morning I do a Math Challenge and that is really challenging.

I had my first Music/Singing lesson at school. I had fun learning about different pitches. I even had a turn at the keyboard and to top the day off, I won first place in the Book Week Competition. I received a $20 gift card. By Dakota. WhooHoo!

Our class are doing self defence with Scott. It’s called ARAKAN. It’s from Burma. We are all having fun. By Brittney.

I’m really excited that our new stu-dent Mario has settled in well. We have been continuing our Novel study of “The Fantastic Mr Fox” We are all very proud of Natasha as her Work Experience has been extended, she has been doing a great job. Well Done!! And a big Hi to Mrs Wood in joining The Comets this term. Miss Gilbert

How cool is this?? Britney and I went to The Australian Museum for an excursion. We had fun. Mario.

Miss M: The last three weeks students have been making great progress in their literacy and numeracy work. I would like to welcome Michaela and Claire into class 7 as well as Miss Barhoum who has helped transition these students into my classroom. Recently students have been learning about morals through Disney movies and stu-dents have show some great understandings in selecting morals to be studied in class. Along with this program students have been doing artwork which reflects the movie being watched. Class 7 this week watched Mulan and discussed the moral ‘being yourself’’ and what that means to them. Well done team Panthers! Keep up the great work!

Charbel: In the afternoons we have been learning about different morals in Disney movies. I have been watching Maleficent and Mulan. I have learnt about not judging other people without knowing their full story and I have learnt to just be myself. It has been so much fun doing the art ac-tivities.

Richard: My favourite subject is mathematics and I have really enjoyed learning about money. At the moment I am learning about subtraction and how to work out the amount of change I should get back if I purchased different items. I have also enjoyed real kids!

Curtis: It has been so much fun these last couple of weeks because I got to go fishing for the first time in my life and I have been doing a power-point in class to persuade Mr Greg to let us build a zen garden for out classroom. In class we have also been making our own dragons, like the one from Mulan.

Claire: I have enjoyed being in Miss M’s class. We have been doing reading groups and rotating around the room. I get to read with Miss M, do writ-ing activities on my book with Ms Barhoum, spell my words using magnetic letters, read fun books on epic, get to do handwriting and find-a-words.

Michaela: I have really enjoyed being in class 7 with Miss M. We have been looking at money in class for maths and it has been so much fun. We are looking at how much change we should get back when purchasing goods.

Kraig: I have enjoyed real kids these last couple of weeks. I have also enjoyed reading with Miss M and learning about money. It has also been fun watching Disney movies and learning about differ-ent morals. I have also really enjoyed photog-raphy.

Naqi: I have had so much fun when Miss M lets me do reading eggs. Also this week Mr Greg helped me build a pretend helicopter. It cant fly but it looks really cool and I cant wait until it is finished.

Photo taken by Curtis

COBRAS

Tori:

I loved Book Week and

dressing up as my favourite

character. I also started

playing Prodigy to help with

my maths.

Moustafa:

I am looking forward to go-

ing out on the school boat

and using the pool when it

is finished.

Byron:

I have earnt almost 50

Hassall Free dollars and am

using them to make Prodigy

even more fun.

Billal:

I enjoyed learning how to

draw cartoons during Book

Week,

Jack:

Every week we go to Work

Experience on Thursdays. I

am hoping this lads to me

working at a Music Store.

John:

We have created three dif-

ferent artworks in our

‘Morals’ lessons. They

look excellent.

Last week I earned my first Hassall Free Prize. I earned a $30 Playstation gift card. I enjoy cooking with Mr B. We have made cottage pie and spaghetti Bolo-gnese. This week we are making lasagne. Last Thursday I went fishing with the Real Kids group. Even though I didn’t catch anything, it was a lot of fun.

I have only been at Rowland Hassall School for two weeks, I went swimming for Level 1 last week and really enjoyed it. In class we are learning about perimeter. I enjoy cooking and am look-ing forward to making lasagne. I have made some new friends at Rowland Hassall and enjoy being here.

S

At Rowland Hassall last week we had book week on Wednesday and the next day after that we had Warriors with Mr Batten. On Friday for level one last week we went to the pools and it was fun.

Hussein

At school I enjoyed celebra ng Book Week, Warriors and opera ng the Robot. I'm also looking forward to hopefully going to the Gold Coast in four more weeks!

Daniel

I am trying really hard to be good and be on Level 1 for five weeks so I can go to the Gold Coast. I am doing all my work and really want to join the Warriors group on Thursday with Mr Vince and Mr Barhoum.

Yehya

I have been saving my Hassle Frees all year and last week I decided to get a $100 gift card. I am going to buy some things for my motor bike.

Michael

Rowland Hassall School 18b Parkham Street

Chester Hill

ROWLAND HASSALL SCHOOL

Captain Report

Safe Respectful Learners

BY DANIEL KETHEL

Last week at Rowland Hassall we celebrated Book Week. Students dressed up for the occasion and the winner of the best dressed was Dakota! We welcomed our newest student Samir to our school. Warri-ors have been working at Greenacre Public School and Real Kids have been taking part in Bondi to Bronte walk as well as Bicentennial park. Our level one reward for this week is seeing ‘A Dog’s Journey’. There are only few more weeks until Gold Coast. Earn all your points, be respectful and good luck!